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'The Senate sucks': Freedom Caucus joins Trump’s tantrum as GOP infighting deepens
Trump’s Shutdown Theater Runs on Manufactured PanicPower, Not PrincipleThe source is simple enough: Donald Trump wants his election bill, the House Freedom Caucus is helping him freeze the chamber, and Speaker Mike Johnson is being dragged to the White House to see whether he can pry his own party off the ledge. That is the actual power structure here. Not “Congress,” not “the Senate,” and certainly not the fantasy that this is some clean procedural disagreement. It is a pressure campaign by the president and his loyalists, aimed at forcing compliance by turning legislative routine into…
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